Heatwaves (+40º) induced strong reductions in antennal responses to floral scents in bees, disrupting the chemical communication between plants and pollinators. This can lead to declines in colonies and populations

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Scientists Stick QR Codes On Bees To Track Their Flight Patterns

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Bees learn to read simple ‘Morse code’ 🐝📡 - study shows that bumblebees can be trained to differentiate between long and short light flashes. This has been seen only in humans and other vertebrates such as macaques or pigeons.

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Bees 🐝 Understand Morse Code. It Could Change How We See Human Intelligence 🧠.

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🐝 Queen bumblebees have less efficient tongues for nectar collection than worker bees, a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals.

🌸 Despite having longer tongues (4-10 mm), queen bumblebees have sparser hairs on them, making them less effective at trapping nectar compared to the more heavily-haired tongues of worker bees.

🔬 Researchers used scanning electron microscopy and high-speed video to observe buff-tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris), finding queens' tongues are less efficient at capturing liquid.

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New research reveals that bumblebees can learn and recognize abstract rhythms, an ability previously thought to require large brains. Despite having brains the size of a sesame seed, bees can identify specific patterns across different speeds and even translate them between light and vibration.

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Magnetic Bees: In a collaboration between Ecology and Materials Science, we have found that >90% of bees are ferromagnetic and presumably have the capacity to sense the geomagnetic field

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New study show that honey bees can detect viruses including deformed wing virus in their food sources, but in field tests they actually prefer food sources laced with virus.

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Bees pass the maths test: study confirms the insects aren’t just winging it. Honeybees do have the ability to process numerical information, finds study that addressed recent international debate over whether bees are truly assessing numbers or simply reacting to visual patterns.

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Researchers discover an underground colony of bees with an estimated population of 5.5 million under a New York cemetery | Emergence dynamics and host-parasite associations in a large aggregation of Andrena regularis (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Andrenidae)

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Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees | Scientists found bees could solve an insect version of the classic “box-and-banana” problem

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Pollinators in peril: scientists reveal the hidden human health costs of the world’s disappearing bees | Bees

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In a first for honeybees, researchers found queens facing chronic pesticide exposure will protect themselves by shunting the toxic chemicals into their eggs, a newly documented defense mechanism known as maternal offloading that may contribute to delayed colony collapse.

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Bumblebees have passed a classic intelligence test once thought unique to primates. Researchers designed a two-step puzzle box where bees had to perform an unrewarded task pushing a blue tab before they could access a sugar reward by pushing a yellow tab.

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